Flash Builder - Design View - can't resize/move objects anymore.

So, I've downloaded the 60 day trial of Flash Builder 4. I've been working with it for about 2 days and everything has been going fine. However, for some unknown reason, my design view panel just suddenly stopped working properly. I see the components (and the gray outlines of my containers) I'm working with, but when I try to click on them, I do not get that blue resizing outline with the handles. I see the properties panel change when I click different components, but I get no outline. So, I can no longer resize in this view. I also can't move components/containers around. I can only click on them and watch the properties panel change. I do not believe I've hit any sort of option in the menus. I closed the application and started it up again with the same result. I even rebooted my machine and tried again. As of right now, this problem seems to be permanent. Any ideas? Thanks for your time.

I would recommend you post on the Flash Builder forum: http://forums.adobe.com/community/flash_builder

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